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Do you Doodle? Or wish you did? In today’s post I will be reviewing; Craft-a-Doodle by Jenny Doh. If the winter blues are getting you down, or your life stresses you out, you need this book.

Craft-a-Doodle by Jenny Doh

Title: Craft-a-Doodle

Author: Jenny Doh

Publisher: Lark Crafts

ISBN: 978-1-4547-0422-5

RRP: £12.99 at time of writting

My Reason for Buying

Growing up I used to doodle quite a lot, but gave it up for no particular reason. Lately Doodling has become the latest craze and since I used to love it so much, I wanted to see what other artists doodle.

I tell you this as often a review is based on how well the book lived up to the expectations of its reader, for their purpose ;)

Contents

This book brings together a number of artists and has tutorials/doodle prompts for each of them. The artists included in the book are;

Cori Dantini

Gemma Correll

Carla Sonheim

Flora Chang

Corinne Dean

Dawn Devries Sokol

Jessie Oleson Moore

Dinara Mirtalipova

Julie ArmbrusterStephanie Kubo

Cynthia Shaffer

Aimee Ray

Teressa McFayden

Hanna Anderson

Mafalda Laezza

Pamela Keravuori

Jennifer Taylor

Teesa Moore

Pros/Cons

Pros

Good clear font used throughout the book

Most of the text is NOT on patterned or textured background, some is in red ink but not too much and some is on coloured panels but the background isn’t mottled so that helps.

Lots of different style brought together in one publication

At the back of the book is a paragraph about each artist included in the main book

Links to artists websites/blogs are in the back of the book

Details of materials used by each artist are included with the tutorials

Cons

Haven’t got any

Value for Money

Excellent, covers a lot of different styles in one book

Would I buy it Again?

Totally

Summing up

You know when you were a kid and saw someone drawing something cool, if you were lucky they would teach you how to do it, then you went off and made it your own.. This book is like that. I like that there are different styles in the book, I didn’t love them all but found lots that I did. I like that there are lists of websites in the book so if you fall in love with a style you can visit the artists site and find out more.

You don’t need much to doodle, if you have a sheet of printer paper and a biro you can doodle. Just bring an open mind and your favorite brew and this book will inspire you to get back to doodling and all the fun and relaxation that it brings. You can get pretty with it with coloured pens and pencils or paints of your choice if you like, but whatever you do, its a lot of fun and will bring a smile to your face. Who doesn’t need that from time to time?

Go get this book, its excellent, you need it. ;)

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